Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 5, completing the bottom.

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Today I managed to make the groove for the interlocking of the bottom. Actually it was a bit easier than I anticipated. Easy workability and...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 4, working on the bottom and finding a couple of design flaws

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The glue had dried and it did indeed still work even though I passed the "best before" date written on the container. The panel ...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 3 dovetails and glueing up the bottom.

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Today I chopped the dovetails of the four corners of the chest. A benefit of using spruce is that you can make the dovetails really tight si...
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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid part 2

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Yesterday I found a set of pallet sides for half a Euro pallet. It was a set that I had saved from some time ago, when we received some spa...
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Friday, July 3, 2015

Treasure chest with curved lid

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I actually managed to make a functioning porch before going back to sea, although I didn't finish it completely. But there is enough ...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Japanese end joint (Kanawa tsugi)

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Inspired by a comment from Sylvain yesterday I found out that I had actually earlier installed a Japanese joint the "wrong" way. ...
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Japanese end joint (Okkake daisen tsugi)

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For the porch I am going to need some planks that are longer than what I have on hand. I could go the easy route and just bolt, screw or na...
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